Midas of the Rockies: Biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, Croesus of Cripple Creek

by Frank Waters, Marshall Sprague (Contribution by)

Overview

This reprint makes available again Frank Waters' dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pike's Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth. More than regional history, Midas of the Rockies is a story so fabulously impossible and yet so painfully true that it commends itself to the whole of America, the only earth, the only people who could have created it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804005913
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1972
Series:	Story of Stratton and Cripple Creek
Edition description:	2
Pages:	347
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.

Editorial Reviews

"Mr. Waters has done a fine piece of work, valuable and distinctly entertaining."--C. J. Finger

"This book will have a real fascination for anyone who loves his Colorado. It is not only a faithful biography of Winfield Scott Stratton...but it details as well a whole history of Colorado mining."--W. F. Boericke

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